Here's a floppy with a tar of a compressed cpio archive.

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  Its use is spreading now that portable implementations...
• zip: [primarily MS-DOS] vt. To create a compressed archive from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver.
  Its use is spreading now that portable implementations...
• tarball n. [very common; prob. based on the "tar baby" in the Uncle Remus folk tales] An archive,
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• Floppy now,
  hard later...
• Floppy now,
  hard later...
• tar and feather vi. [from Unix tar(1)] To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with tar(1) (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the result (see compress).
  The latter action is dubbed `feathering' partly...
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  The latter action is dubbed `feathering' partly...
• Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once.
  Karl...
• A hard drive is more satisfying than a soft
  floppy...